Summer 2023
Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination
Teacher Education and Development
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The teacher recruitment freefall: Opening the parachute requires us to understand our prospective teachers better
In their BERA Blog post ‘Dropping off a cliff’ Innes et al. (2023) break down four areas of policy which they suggest are the ‘real driver’ of frighteningly low teacher training...
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Beyond performance: Increasing teacher capabilities through a distributed leadership coaching model
When academics talk about coaching in schools, often the focus is on teachers’ and pupils’ performance (Knight, 2007; Bresser & Wilson, 2010). While there are laudable achievements of peer...
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Preparing children for the future: Robot programming in early childhood education
The field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...
Continue reading blog postExploring open approaches to digital literacy
The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...
Continue reading blog postRevisiting the role of case knowledge in teacher development
Teacher knowledge is very much in the foreground of English early career teacher development, as articulated in the Department for Education’s (DfE) Core Content Framework and Early Career...
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Decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies and curricular in teacher education: The importance of partnerships between practice and scholarship
BERA’s recent work in supporting research focused on race and education, including the 2021 Small Grants Fund (BERA, 2022), is part of wider initiatives in school and higher education sectors to...
Continue reading blog postMaking connections when teaching mathematics: The role of teacher knowledge and beliefs
Mathematical ideas, concepts or procedures are interconnected; they therefore cannot be understood well in isolation. Mathematical connections made in the classroom give students opportunities to...
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Dropping off a cliff: What’s really behind the fall in trainee teacher recruitment?
Graduates are giving teaching the swerve in increasing numbers. The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that recruitment for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses at secondary level is...
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Science and religious education teachers’ perspectives on the purpose of RE on the secondary school curriculum in England
It is important that secondary school teachers know about the other subjects that are taught in their schools in order to provide a coherent curriculum experience for students. Over the past...
Continue reading blog postDesign research: A ‘tomorrow’ approach that needs consideration ‘today’?
Design research (or design-based research) is a methodological framework that focuses on the ‘tomorrow’; that is, the design of education as it could or should be (Bakker, 2018). Informed by a...
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School location and distributed leadership in the United Kingdom
Distributed leadership has increased in popularity worldwide (Harris & Spillane, 2008). Research has been conducted across a diverse range of countries on distributed leadership and its...
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